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N • Student sanctions
dailyorange.com
P • Film forum
O • Need to compromise
Few colleges and universities have suspended students participating in campus protests. SU placed about 30 #NotAgainSU members under interim suspension. Page 3
Award-winning screenwriter, producer and playwright Marc Lapadula spoke to a group of students and members of the public at Syracuse Studios. Page 9
The Daily Orange Editorial Board argues that after two weeks of #NotAgainSU’s occupation of Crouse-Hinds Hall, both sides must find compromise. Page 5
S • Held back
A D.O. data analysis shows a pervasive coaching double standard that plagues collegiate ice hockey and holds the women’s side of the sport behind. Page 12
on campus
Syverud to participate in #NotAgainSU negotiations via phone Organizers presented Syverud with a list of 19 demands in November. Syverud signed 16 as written and revised the remaining three. The movement has added 16 demands since it began its occupation last week. The movement will begin negotiating with university officials on its additional demands Monday at 4 p.m., continuing until its demands are met. Organizers and SU administrators met Thursday to discuss the logistics of the negotiations. Several university officials will be
By Maggie Hicks asst. news editor
Chancellor Kent Syverud will not be physically present at this weeks’ negotiation meetings with #NotAgainSU. #NotAgainSU, a movement led by Black students, has been occupying Crouse-Hinds Hall since Feb. 17 in response to a string of hate incidents that have occurred on or near Syracuse University’s campus since early November.
present at the negotiations, including Amanda Nicholson, interim deputy senior vice president for the student experience, and Deka Dancil, manager of bias response and education. During the logistics meeting, organizers questioned if Syverud or executive members of the Board of Trustees would be in attendance at the negotiations. Protesters later received an email from SU stating that Syverud and trustees would not be in attendance. The chancellor will be traveling
Monday and Tuesday to manage the university’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and will not be available to meet in person, said Sarah Scalese, senior associate vice president for university communications, in a statement. He will attend the negotiations by phone as much as possible, she said. The university also will continue communicating directly with the Board of Trustees Special Committee on University Climate, Diversity and Inclusion to discuss specific
considerations, Scalese said. Some #NotAgainSU organizers interrupted a lunch with SU donors Saturday to urge Syverud to participate in negotiations. “We’ve been under the impression that he’s too busy to be bothered with us but there he was on campus having lunch trying to collect money,” an organizer said in a statement. Syverud did not address the protesters directly at the lunch, the organizer said. mehicks@syr.edu
on campus
Undervalued
SU lacks permanent women deans
At SU, scientists occupy most of the university’s top research positions. Some professors say that needs to change.
By Sarah Alessandrini
Federal research funding in different subjects
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Number of programs that received $0
The number of programs within each of SU’s schools or colleges that did not receive any research funding in 2019
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4 Math, stats and physical sciences
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13% 0
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Falk Education Architecture Engineering and Arts and Computer Science Sciences
0 Information Studies
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Humanities
Whitman
School/college By Michael Sessa asst. news editor
Graphics by Nabeeha Anwar design editor
English associate professor Coran Klaver has worked at Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences for 21 years. In that time, almost none of the school’s deans have specialized in the humanities. During the University Senate’s annual open forum in February, Klaver expressed concern that scientists occupy many of the
university’s top research and administrative positions. She wanted to address “the elephant in the room,” she said. John Liu, interim vice chancellor and provost, specializes in aquaculture genetics. Ramesh Raina, interim vice president for research, studies biology. The dean of Klaver’s school, Karin Ruhlandt, is a chemist. “All those people are all hard sciences,” Klaver said. “They don’t necessarily have an understanding of the value of the humanities because they haven’t been trained in the humanities.”
SU is not unique in its support of the sciences, but SU could do more to elevate humanities researchers to administrative positions and incorporate humanities perspectives into the university’s decision-making, Klaver said.
Research funding
At February’s senate meeting, Chancellor Kent Syverud said the sources of research funding likely drive the prominence of deans and administrators from STEM backgrounds at major universities. see research page 4
asst. copy editor
There were no permanent women deans at Syracuse University when Diane Lyden Murphy earned her undergraduate degree in 1967. Now, she’s one of only three. SU has 13 schools and colleges, including the graduate school. Nine have permanent men deans. Along with the three permanent women deans, professor Amy Falkner serves as interim dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. “The world is changing, but we’re not there yet,” said Murphy, dean of the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. SU’s three women deans said the university needs to prioritize diversity within leadership positions to provide role models to young women. SU not only needs to seek out women representation, but representation across all backgrounds, they said. “We have to be diligent in seeking out diverse candidates for jobs and being intentional about changing what the face of the university looks like,” said Joanna Masingila, dean of SU’s School of Education. Chancellor Kent Syverud said last month that he’s concerned about inequality among SU’s academic deans. The university has lost several permanent women deans in recent years, replacing two of the positions with men. Raj Dewan succeeded Liz Liddy as dean of the School of Information Studies after Liddy retired last year. J. Cole Smith replaced Teresa AbiNader Dahlberg as dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science when Dahlberg took a position at Texas Christian University in 2018. Falkner was chosen to serve as interim dean of Newhouse following the death of former dean Lorraine see deans page 4